Hybrid work looks different across business sizes and industries.
Across the board, organisations are returning to the office, while employees working from home continue to use bandwidth and apps for collaboration.
Connectivity has never been more crucial to society than now. The outbreak of the pandemic has cast a spotlight on mobile and broadband technology, the enabler for so many of the services we now rely on.
How is connectivity changing today? Is the demand high?
- According to Digital Report.com, there were 41.19 million internet users in South Africa in January 2022.
- Work from home has accelerated the demand for high-speed connectivity.
- As more customers use technology to stay connected, fibre broadband has played an instrumental role in enabling this connected experience.
- The need for reliable, high-quality and fast broadband connectivity is crucial to everyday life now more than ever, and this holds true especially as we experience continued waves of the pandemic.
- Connectivity has become the bedrock on which interaction, remote work and collaboration have continued.
What is crucial in enabling this experience has been the fixed fibre infrastructure that connects homes, businesses and mobile base stations.
What are businesses looking for in terms of the best connectivity solutions provider?
1. Network resilience
Any amount of downtime is detrimental to business, so your network connectivity provider must have failover strategies in place to handle downtime quickly, with minimal disruptions to your processes. Before committing to a connectivity provider, they want to ensure that you have adequate measures in place to effectively deal with downtime.
2. Network speed
Low latency is no longer a nice-to-have but a necessity, especially for critical data transmission. In a connected world, things move quickly; your network needs to be able to keep up. Whether using edge connectivity or specific network paths, low latency and its continued delivery should be high up on your connectivity provider’s priority list.
3. Network reach
The reach of your connectivity provider’s network is also an important consideration as it’s vital that all your customer locations are accounted for and that the provider’s network can host your data as close to your customers as possible. Take into account where your customers are, as well as where future customers may be, and consider a connectivity provider with a far-reaching network.
4. Network security
When it comes to ensuring the security of your network and the data flowing through it, a fully managed and multi-pronged security solution is best.
Your connectivity provider’s security services should extend to not only the data being transported through the network, but also the infrastructure, hardware and equipment of the network, whether located on-premises or in the cloud. Your connectivity provider should also proactively monitor network traffic constantly to identify and rectify any security threats.
5. Cloud network connectivity
Cloud connectivity is looking more like the future of networking each day, and with good reason. Opting for a cloud-based IT infrastructure can benefit your business in many ways, as cloud connectivity is highly available and easily scalable (when using public or hybrid cloud solutions), meaning you can increase and decrease your IT resources as needed and only pay for what you use.
If you need internet that is reliable, fast and able to manage multiple devices at once without breaking a sweat, InterVoice is the product for you.
With so much competition in the market, finding the right provider of reliable, uninterrupted connectivity to suit your business needs can be a tough task. Our offers differ depending on which network is available in your area.
Visit our website for more information: https://scopserv.co.za/connectivity/
Source: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-south-africa
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